By Chris Donald
Barcelona defender Dani Alves is to pay tribute to his former teammate Eric Abidal as part of a number of shirt number changes at the club this season.
It is reported that the Seleção full back is to give up his number 2 shirt to take the number 22, the number left vacant after Abidal’s departure this summer.
Whilst there has been no confirmation from the club on the list for 2013-14, Barca’s players indicated in their 2-0 friendly defeat to Bayern on Wednesday a few numerical rearrangements have been made.
Mundo Deportivo believe that Dani Alves, who didn’t play in Germany after his participation in the Confederations Cup, has left the No 2 shirt to Martin Montoya out of choice to take the No 22 shirt in tribute to his former teammate.
This news comes after Alves’ Brazil and Barcelona teammate Neymar was confirmed to wear the number 11 shirt after his arrival from Santos.
